• @[email protected]
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    61 month ago

    There does exist biological plastic made of plants. That might work as an equivalent to e cigarettes

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      What it’s made from is irrelevant. Plastic doesn’t break down in the gut and can cause dangerous blockages.

    • @NegativeInf
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      41 month ago

      Weren’t the first plastics made of the original biopolymer? Celluloid from cellulose?

        • @NegativeInf
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          21 month ago

          Fair. Both are sufficiently ancient, but cellulose bearing species diverged earlier chitin bearing ones. Exact timing on it tho is nebulous. So either will do.

          I only mention cellulose specifically because it is the historic precursor to the first man made plastic, celluloid. But there are now processes to convert chitin to chitosan, which is a moldable plastic.